University teachers will hold a crunch meeting with
government today to insist that the book and research
allowance be maintained as a condition to end a protracted strike lasting over
a month. Their position comes despite concession by government to pay the
controversial allowance for 2013/14 that became the teacher's rallying point
for the strike. Government had earlier maintained that it did not owe the
teachers and also announced its plan to convert the book and research allowance
into a research fund to be disbursed when an interested lecturer wants support
for research. These two government position forced polytechnic and university
lecturers to embark on strike. In the case of POTAG the strike has travelled
over three months and ended after government agreed to pay the allowance last
week. UTAG is still on strike. It appears the victory will only be complete
after UTAG manages to get government to also rescind its decision on scrapping
the allowance all together. The UTAG General Secretary expressed the
association's satisfaction after a previous meeting to discuss the issue.
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